VINYL FORMAT. For the past six years, Seattle's Minus The Bear have orbited the music world like a distant meteor, fine-tuning their brand of idiosyncratic indie rock and discovering how technology can help enhance their unique pop vision - all of which is about to culminate with this, their latest full-length. Says bassist Cory Murchy, "I hate the term 'organic', but that's the one term I can think of when comparing this to our other records because there's a lot of weird electronic stuff going on there, but there's some really raw riffage as well."